Mapping Narrations Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 34)

This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases. Ingrid Baumgärtner is Professor of Medieval History at Kassel University (Germany). Her research focuses on spatial history, gender, and regional history. 9781501516016 1 9781501516016 2 Preface 6 Contents 12 Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume 14 Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World 16 Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages 16 Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts 38 Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps 88 Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices 110 Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land 146 Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden 146 Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces 204 Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land 236 Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power 278 Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration 278 Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases 304 Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 348 Index of Toponyms and Locations 378 Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples 388 Index of Modern Authors 394 Open Access This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.

This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.